YOUR VIEW: The quotable voice

"Playing music, for me, just feels right. I'm always happy when I'm playing, as if there's nothing in the world that's better than the notes on the page."

"Playing music, for me, just feels right. I'm always happy when I'm playing, as if there's nothing in the world that's better than the notes on the page."

— Keren Satkin, a Westport High School freshman and accomplished flutist, on being chosen to perform in the prestigious 2011 American High School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall in February.

"You can't go from a prison cell to being at Dunkin' Donuts ordering a (coffee). It's just not feasible."

— Ex-inmate Eric Gelmete of New Bedford on the importance of a new program which helps former prisoners reintegrate into society.

"Carrying a dangerous weapon, loaded, in your car, is dangerous... Nothing good can come out of it."

— Judge Joseph Macy to Terrence Gales, 21, of New Bedford, in ordering him held without bail for up to 90 days while his case is pending. Macy's ruling was subsequently overturned by a Superior Court judge.

"It's sort of like a ritual. It's like church or something in the sense that you're celebrating or acknowledging something great for which you share a love with other people."

— Dr. Laurie Robertson-Lorant, a Melville scholar, on the draw of the annual Moby-Dick Marathon, set for Jan. 8 and 9 at the Whaling Museum.

"In terms of teaching tools, it doesn't get too much better than this. When it comes to music, there is no substitute for hands-on learning and this is it at its best."

— Friends Academy teacher Jacqueline Maillet on a new keyboarding laboratory at the North Dartmouth school.

"Our hearts are broken... We will miss him forever... As we look upon him one last time, he'll be forever young, forever beautiful, forever loved."

— Heather Levesque, aunt of Army Pfc. Ethan L. Goncalo who died in Afghanistan of non-combat-related causes. She spoke during his funeral Mass at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church in Fall River.

"Pfc. Goncalo was regarded as the kind of person everybody wanted to be, the kind of friend everybody would want and the kind of soldier everybody would want to serve with."

— Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Sellars, the commander of the Massachusetts Army National Guard, who presented the Army Commendation Medal posthumously to Pfc. Ethan L. Goncalo.

"I think it gave the town some pride and that's a really good thing."

— Wareham High School basketball coach Kevin Brogioli, the town's 2010 Man of the Year, on winning the Division 3 state championship, the team's first ever.

"I go down there and (Howard Gifford) starts telling me this story and I'm looking at the thing and saying 'I'm an architect, I love Westport, I love the sea, I love history ... they got me hooked like three different ways to this project. It was a perfect storm of circumstances."

— Christopher "Chip" Gillespie, Westport's 2010 Man of the Year, on donating his time and talents to help save the historic Horseneck Point Lifesaving Station.

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